Past SIG-MET Workshops

METRICS 2018

WORKSHOP ON INFORMETRIC AND SCIENTOMETRIC RESEARCH (SIG/MET)Workshop sponsored by ASIS&T SIG/MET
ASIS&T 2018 Annual Meeting
Saturday, November 10, 2018
9:00am–5:00pm at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Canada

WORKSHOP PROGRAM
9:00 – 9:15	Opening remarks
9:15 – 10:30	Presentations
	Katherine McCain	Exploring research trajectories and research influence in model organism research using White’s CAMEO framework: The world of the Spreading Earthmoss
	Judit Bar-Ilan and Gali Halevi	Academic Books: Are They Cited?
	Shubhanshu Mishra, Brent D Fegley, Jana Diesner and Vetle I Torvik	Expertise as an aspect of author contributions (STUDENT PAPER)
10:30 – 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:00	Presentations
	Masaki Eto	Strength of Co-citation Linkages Observed in Paragraphs with Many References
	Maxime Sainte-Marie, Philippe Mongeon and Vincent Larivière	Do you Cite What I Mean? Assessing the Semantic Scope of Citations
	Bradford Demarest	Drawing Into Focus: Methodological Enhancements for Discourse Epistemetrics (STUDENT PAPER)
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch Break / Poster sessionPosters: Timothy D Bowman and Rodrigo Costas: “Do authors get mentioned in Twitter? Investigating the mentioning behavior of Twitter users who share research objects”Tiantian Tong, Chengzhi Zhang and Lin Zhang: “Using WoS Keywords to Analyze Topic of Articles Collection with Different Interdisciplinary Degree”Shutian Ma and Chengzhi Zhang: “Full-text Academic Articles and Wikipedia to Find Alternative Free Bioinformatics Software”Yongtao Lin and Edward Little: “Defining and Evaluating Success in Open Science: Metrics Experimentation on Five National Geological Surveys via Web of Science and Altmetric”Adam Craig and Carl Taswell: “The FAIR Metrics of Adherence to Citation Best Practices” Jeff Dougherty and Marisa Ruccolo: “Revealing the Impact of Researcher and Institutional Collaborations Through Normalized Indicators”
13:00 – 13:30	Keynote B. Ian Hutchins, NIH: “Diverse metrics for evaluating the impact of NIH-funded research”
13:30 – 14:45	Presentations
	Johanna M. Askeridis	An h index for Mendeley. Comparison of citation-based h indices and a readership-based hmen index for 29 authors (STUDENT PAPER)
	Shenmeng Xu, Xianwen Wang, Zhichao Fang and Bradley Hemminger	Tracking Digital Footprints to Academic Articles: An Investigation of Publication Referral Data (STUDENT PAPER)
	Fereshteh Didegah, Juan Pablo Alperin and Stefanie Haustein	Are Lay Summaries Useful for the Diffusion of Research on Social Platforms?
14:45 – 15:15	Coffee break / Poster session
15:15 – 16:30	Presentations
	Gerald Marschke, Allison Nunez, Bruce Weinberg and Huifeng Yu	New Metrics for Quantifying Underrepresentation in Biomedicine and its Trends
	Gita Ghiasi and Vincent Larivière	On the Gendered Examination of Patents
	Mikko Packalen	Edge Factors: Scientific Frontier Rankings of Nations
16:30 – 17:00	Open discussions Closing remarks

SPONSORS

Thanks to our sponsors Altmetric.com, Dimensions, Elsevier and Frontiers for supporting this year’s workshop! Altmetric.com and Dimensions are sponsoring our Best Paper Award, Elsevier is sponsoring the Best Student Paper Award.

After the workshop, you are invited to submit your work to Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, a peer reviewed open access journal. Presenters who indicate their plan to submit to the journal within three month of the workshop date and submit within six month will be offered a 50% discount sponsored by Frontiers.

METRICS 2017

METRICS 2017: WORKSHOP ON INFORMETRIC AND SCIENTOMETRIC RESEARCH (SIG/MET)

ARLINGTON, VA, USA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27TH, 2017,
9:00AM–5:00 PM AT THE HYATT REGENCY

SIGMET WORKSHOP PROGRAM
9:00 – 9:15	Opening remarks
9:15 – 10:30	Regarding indicators
	Katherine McCain	Undercounting the gift givers: Issues when tallying acknowledgments in life sciences research
	Isabelle Dorsch	Relative Visibility: Methodological Considerations on a New Scientometric Indicator Based upon Personal Publication Lists
	Judit Bar-Ilan	CiteScore vs JIF and Other Journal Indicators
10:30 – 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:00	Student papers
	Wanying Zhao, Jin Mao, Kun Lu	An Exploratory Study on Co-word Network Simulation
	Antoine Archambault, Philippe Mongeon, Vincent Larivière	The concentration of journal use in Canadian universities
	Christine Meschede	Cross-Metric Compatibility of Altmetrics: Consistency of the Metrics from PlumX and Altmetric.com
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:00	Poster session: peer-reviewed posters
	Peter Hook	Are the Scaling Properties of Research Universities More Like Cities or Corporations?
	Chrstina K. Pikas	Methods for Bibliometric Institutional Profiles for the Practitioner
	Open Poster Session: Workshop participants can bring a poster to present and discuss their latest research.
14:00 – 14:45	All about citations
	Edwin Henneken, Alberto Accomazzi, Sergio Blanco-Cuaresma, August Muench, Lars Holm Nielsen	Asclepias – Capturing Software Citations in Astronomy
	Eto Masaki	Increasing Source Documents of Rough Co-citation to Expand Co-citation Networks for Scientific Paper Searches
14:45 – 15:00	Coffee break
15:00 – 16:15	Other metrics
	Pei-Ying Chen, Erica Hayes, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto	Politics of platforms: the ideological perspectives of social reference manager users on scholarly communication
	Eshan Mohammadi, Mike Thelwall, Kristi Holmes	Interpret the meaning of academic tweets: A multi-disciplinary survey
	Philippe Mongeon	Is there a Matilda effect in academic patenting?
16:15 – 17:00	Best paper award sponsored by Elsevier and Altmetric.com/Figshare
	Open discussions
	Closing remarks

METRICS 2016

METRICS 2016: WORKSHOP ON INFORMETRIC AND SCIENTOMETRIC RESEARCH (SIG/MET)
COPENHAGEN, OCTOBER 14TH, 2016,
9:00AM–4:30PM AT THE CROWNE PLAZA

SIGMET WORKSHOP PROGRAM
9:00 – 9:10	Opening remarks
9:10 – 10:40	Evaluating individuals
	Fei Shu	M-score: An improvement of the h-index in terms of the consistency and accuracy
	Mikko Tuomela, Brent Fegley and Vetle Torvik	Introducing the Author-ity Exporter, and a case study of geo-temporal movement of authors
	Philippe Mongeon, Elise Smith, Bruno Joyal and Vincent Larivière	The contribution of middle authors to the production of knowledge in the biomedical field
10:40 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30	Poster session: peer-reviewed posters
	Rafael Aeixandre-Benavent, Antonia Ferrer-Sapena, Antonio Vidal-Infer, Adolfo Alonso-Arroyo, Enrique Alfonson Sánchez-Pérez and Fernanda Peset	Journals’ policies of storage and reuse of raw research data and their impact in five scientific areas
	Keiko Yokoi	The sustainability of Open Access journals: The situation regarding Open Access journals launched between 2000 and 2014
	Noriko Sugie	Clustering of library users by similarity of visiting paths using location information
	Lourdes Castelló-Cogollos, Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent and Rafael Castelló-Cogollos	Measuring with indicators the endogamy in the academic assessment boards of PhD theses
	Open Poster Session: Workshop participants can bring a poster to present and discuss their latest research.
12:30 – 13:00	Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:30	Reading, citing and mentioning online
	Gali Halevi, Judit Bar-Ilan and Elsa Anderson	Are researchers reading the journals they publish in? A case study of Icahn School of Medicine Scientists
	Dangzhi Zhao and Lucinda Johnston	To what degree are uni-citations perfunctory? A case study
	Kim Holmberg, Timothy Bowman and Fereshteh Didegah	Open Access advantage? an altmetric analysis of Finnish research publications
14:30 – 15:00	Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:00	Student session — Best student paper awarded by Elsevier
	Adèle Paul-Hus, Philippe Mongeon and Maxime Sainte-Marie	The sum of it all: An analysis of team size using authorship and acknowledgement data
	Antoine Archambault, Philippe Mongeon and Vincent Larivière	German reunification and its effects on researchers’ publication patterns
	Jennifer Pierre	Assessing Professor/Student Relationships through Web Analysis for Measurement of Mentorship Impact
16:00 – 16:30	Best paper award sponsored by Altmetric.com and Digital Science Open discussion Closing remarks

METRICS 2015

METRICS 2015
St-Louis, MO, November 7th, 2015

SIGMET WORKSHOP PROGRAM
9:00 – 10:00 am:	Case studies in bibliometrics
	George Lan, Lei Pan and Sophia Katrenko	Analyzing Interdisciplinary Research Along Multiple Dimensions of Research Impact
	Philippe Mongeon	The impact of funding on research collaboration: the case of Quebec researchers
	Katherine Mccain	Collaboration Patterns in Model Organism Research: Co-authorship, acknowledgement, and the starlet sea anemone (Nematostella vectensis)
10:00 – 10:30 am:	Coffee Break Open-Poster Presentations*
10:30 – 11:30 am:	Relationship between bibliometrics and information retrieval
	Kun Lu, Xin Cai, Isola Ajiferuke and Dietmar Wolfram	Vocabulary Size and Its Effect on Topic Representation for Informetric and Information Retrieval Data Processing
	Theresa Velden	Same Data, Different Results? On a Comparative Topic Extraction Exercise
	Rob Koopman, Shenghui Wang and Andrea Scharnhorst	Between information retrieval services and bibliometrics research – new ways of semantic browsing and visual analytics
11:30 – 12:30 pm:	Student papers — Best student paper awarded by Elsevier
	Misha Teplitskiy, Grace Lu and Eamon Duede	Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science
	Fei Shu and Philippe Mongeon	Evolution of iSchool Movement (1988-2013): A Bibliometric View
12:30 – 1:30 pm:	Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:50 pm:	Alt(ernative)metrics
	Stacy Konkiel	Citation lags for articles referenced in public policy documents: an exploratory study
	**Philippe Mongeon, Adèle Paul-Hus and Fei Shu	Twitter activity and scientific collaboration of LIS schools and faculty members
	James Pringle	A New Interest Indicator Based on Researcher Behavior in the Web of Science
	**Stefanie Haustein and Rodrigo Costas	Identifying Twitter audiences: who is tweeting about scientific papers?
2:50 – 3:30 pm:	Broadening the scope of bibliometrics
	Bradford Demarest	Comparative discourse epistemetrics: Research article abstracts and full texts
	Bahram Kalhor, Mohammad Reza Ghane and Alireza Nikravanshalmani	Approximating percentage of academic traffic in the World Wide Web and rankings of countries based on academic traffic
3:30 – 4:00 pm:	Coffee Break Open-Poster Presentations*
4:00 – 4:40 pm:	Metrics in use
	Betsy Martens, Christopher Fiebrich and Bradley Illston	Mapping Oklahoma Mesonet Sensor Datastreams
	Edwin Henneken	Metrics and Visualizations in the Astrophysics Data System
4:40 – 5:00 pm:	Best altmetrics paper awarded by altmetric.com and figshare

* Bring your own poster and discuss your late-breaking research with workshop participants.
** Winners of the Best altmetrics paper award.

Invited posters after peer-review
Virginia A. Dressler. Beyond Google Analytics: Using the ‘Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources’ to embed metrics and gauge use of regional digital collections.

METRICS 2014

Ehsan Mohammadi Mike Thelwall Kayvan Kousha	A Survey of Mendeley Users to Help Interpret Readership Altmetrics
Jinseok Kim Jana Diesner	Adverse Effects of Initial-Based Name Disambiguation on Measurements of Large-Scale Coauthorship Networks
Timothy D. Bowman	Affordance Use Differences Between Personal and Professional Scholarly Tweets
Robert Frodeman	Developing a Theoretical Framework for Broader Impacts
Zohreh Zahedi Stefanie Haustein Timothy D. Bowman	Exploring data quality and retrieval strategies for Mendeley reader counts
Ulf Sandström	Including gender in large-scale individual level (evaluative) bibliometrics
Bradford Demarest Cassidy R. Sugimoto Vincent Larivière	Mapping the Sciences via Social and Epistemic Discourse
Jevin D. West	Modifying the Eigenfactor Algorithm for improving interpretability
Katherine McCain	Polysemy in Indexing Practice can Affect Metrics Analyses: The case of GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL in MeSH
Gali Halevi Judit Bar-Ilan	Some Observations on the SIGMET Dataset
Philippe Mongeon Adèle Paul-Hus	The journal coverage of bibliometric databases: A comparison of Scopus and Web of Science
Jorge Herskovic	The US Snowball Metrics Initiative
Vanessa Peña	The Use and Limitations of Publication and Patent Citation Analyses to Trace the Federal Government Support of Additive Manufacturing Technologies
Ashraf Maleki	Twitter Users in Science Tweets Linking to Articles: The Case of Web of Science Articles with Iranian Authors
Yaşar Tonta	Use and Misuse of Bibliometric Measures for Assessment of Academic Performance, Tenure and Publication Support

METRICS 2013

Timothy D. Bowman Isabella Peters Stefanie Haustein Kim Holmberg	#twinkletweet: Hashtag use of astrophysicists on Twitter
Katherine McCain	Charting the rise of the zebrafish as a model organism: Persistent co-author networks, 1980-2004
Hadas Shema Judit Bar-Ilan Mike Thelwall	Classifying motivations for research blog posts—preliminary results
Qi Wang Ulf Sandström	Cognitive distance and peer review: A study of a grant scheme in infection biology
Dangzhi Zhao Andreas Strotmann	Combining author co-citation and bibliographic coupling analyses for the study of research trends
Chaoqun Ni Cassidy R. Sugimoto	Doctoral mentoring and protégé scholarly performance: A preliminary examination in Sociology
Masaki Eto	Document retrieval method using random walk with restart on co-citation network
Bradford Demarest	Measuring identities and differences in epistemic communities in political sub-reddits: A novel-machine-learning-based metric
Kimberly Powll Shenita Peterson	Measuring nursing publication impact and faculty metrics: Web of Science vs Scopus
Songphan Choemprayong	Measuring scholarly collaboration in Southeast Asia: A bibliometric study
Ehsan Mohammadi Mike Thelwall	Mendeley readership altmetrics for the social sciences and humanities: Research evaluation and knowledge flows
Fereshteh Didegah Mike Thelwall	Modelling article citation impact factors using an integrated statistical method
Burak Özkösem	Conversion of reproductive biology meeting abstracts to publications
Jongwook Lee	Measuring a research dimension of academic mentoring
Dietmar Wolfram Feifei Wang	The assessment of journal similarity using citation journal topicality: Results from two investigations
Staša Milojević Cassidy R. Sugimoto Vincent Larivière Mike Thelwall Ying Ding	The role of handbooks in knowledge creation and diffusion: A case of science studies

METRICS 2012

Jiepu Jiang Chaoqun Ni Daqing He	Altmetrics and social reference: Merely fads?
Katherine McCain	Assessing obliteration by incorporation using a full-text database: Herbert Simon, JSTOR and the concept of bounded rationality
Wang Feifei Qui Junping	Influence analysis of core authors in Scientometrics form an integrated perspective of publication and citation
R. Christopher Doty	Tenure-track science faculty and the “open access citation effect”
Hamid Darvish	Assessing the diffusion of nanotechnology in Turkey: a visualization approach
Staša Milojević	Cognitive domains of disciplines – a new method for measuring domain’s size and evolution
Christopher Mascaro	Visualizing an information society: A network-based perspective of authors and editors over 30 years in the context of a scholarly journal
Judit Bar-Ilan	JASIST – a bibliometric and altmetric characterization
Vincent Larivière Benoit Macaluso Staša Milojević Cassidy R. Sugimoto Mike Thelwall	On the scientific impact of ArXiv: A case study of astrophysics
Laura Sheble	Research synthesis: Overview of an intersection with ILS (SIGMET student paper contest winner)
Fereshteh Didegah	The determinants of research citation impact in nanoscience and nanotechnology (SIGMET student paper contest winner)
Gali Halevi Henk Moed	The use of contextual citation analysis to disclose the thematic and conceptual flow of cross-disciplinary research: the case of the Journal of Informetrics 2007
Peter van den Besselaar	Towards theoretically based indicators of interdisciplinarity
Dietmar Wolfram	Work in Progress: Assessing journal similarity based on citing journal topicality

METRICS 2011

Jason Priem Heather A. Piwowar Bradley Hemminger	Altmetrics in the wild: An exploratory study of impact metrics based on social media
Judit Bar-Ilan	Articles tagged by ‘bibliometrics’ on Mendeley and CiteULike
Hamid Darvish	Assessing the diffusion of nanotechnology in Turkey: A social network analysis approach
Dangzhi Zhao Andreas Strotmann	Author selection in author bibliographic coupling analysis
Staša Milojević	Citation practices in the field of Library and Information Science
Katherine McCain	Core journals and persistent research themes in health informatics 2005-2011
Hajar Sotudeh	How sustainable a scientifically developing country could be in its specialties? The case of Iran’s publications in SCI in the 21st century compared to the 1980s
Bei Wen Edwin Horlings Marielle van der Zouwen Peter van den Besselaar Wim Van Vierssen	Mapping science through bibliometric triangulation: An experimental approach applied to water research [winner of the student paper contest]
Kun Lu Dietmar Wolfram	Measuring Author Relatedness
Ryan Zelnio	Metrics for the evaluation of the impact of international scientific collaboration on countries
Dalton Martins Sueli Mara	Analyzing the effect of the arrival of new users in a social network
Jason Priem Kaitlin Costello Tyler Dzuba	First-year graduate students just wasting time? Prevalence and use of Twitter among scholars
Soohyung Joo Margaret E.I. Kipp	Mining social tags to explore the Semantic Web of health information resources
Ulrich Houzanme	Who are the most influential researchers in Library and Information Science in Africa? An informetrics and evaluative investigation of African LIS researchers’ output in main-stream citation sources
Chaoqun Ni Cassidy R. Sugimoto	Research diversity and intensity